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Originally Posted by MikeK
I watched an interesting episode of Modern Marvels on the history channel the other night, it was titled "renewable energy". It stated that Iceland is almost completgely energy neutral. They import a bit of oil for cars, but all their other energy requirements are met with a combination of hydroelectric and geothermal power. Once cars become electric they will be completely energy independent, with little to no pollution.
The most interesting part was that hot water for houses in Reykjavic comes from the geothermal power plant. They have large insulated pipes that run several miles from the plant into the city, then into people's homes. The hot water only loses about 5 deg f along the way!
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Yeah, did they happen to mention that Iceland is the Abu Dubai of geothermal power? Geothermal is a very very good source of renewable (on the scale of human time at least) non-polluting energy, but "supply" is not sufficient to make a serious dent in our issues.